The host of the country music radio program "Louisiana Hayride" reminisces about the performances and careers of country music greats
In 1948, Horace Logan, a young radio producer in Shreveport, LA, started booking talent for a new weekly music show called the Louisiana Hayride.
Sheet Music (Two Guitars, an Old Piano) Hank and Elvis and Me
Louisiana Hayride Years: Making Musical History in Country's Golden Age
As the booking agent for his partner Hank Snow, his first move was to “help” Neal book Elvis into Carlsbad, ... “Good Rockin' Tonight” and “I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine” had been released the previous fall and on January 8, ...
Written by blues singer Arthur Gunter, the original 1954 recording of “Baby Let's Play House” reached number 12 on the R&B chart. Gunter's version was a playful shuffling country blues, rooted in the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta ...
Elvis : In the Twilight of Memory . Arcade Books , 1997 . Krogh , Egil “ Bud . ” The Day Elvis Met Nixon . Pejama Press , 1994 . Logan , Horace , with Bill Sloan . Elvis , Hank , and Me : Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride ...
The resemblance to Elvis is perfect. When they finish, Jeremy asks Hank if he heard the words he was singing, and Hank answers, “Not really. It sounded like I was singing, not you.” “That's exactly it, Hank. It's you singing.
Smith, Jessie Carney, and Carrell Peterson Horton, eds. Historical Statistics of Black America: Media to Vital Statistics. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. Smulyan, Susan. Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, ...
When the meeting ended, Parker agreed to put us on the bill with Hank Snow. We knew enough to know that was a major break for us, but I left the meeting with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. Elvis, Scotty, and Bill—as a ...
Side two has MGM lion logo and reads: "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Kissin' Cousins with an all-star cast! Produced by Sam Katzman, Directed by Gene Nelson. MGM is on the move!" We are not certain exactly what came in the mailing, ...